Scott Walker

Republican presidential candidates dismissed the dominance of Donald Trump in early primary polling, scrambling to position themselves days before their first debate. While candidates and their teams have spent hours privately strategizing how best to tackle the billionaire businessman in Thursday's debate, they publicly discounted the idea of Trump's rise even as a new poll showed the billionaire businessman continuing a summer surge. "Anybody can do well for a month in this business, especially if you have talent and you have personality, and Donald does," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on CNN's "State of the Union." Trump, meanwhile,...

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Republican presidential candidates dismissed the dominance of Donald Trump in early primary polling, scrambling to position themselves days before their first debate.
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One check, from one donor,...

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So what is? Any...

My governor is running for president. He’s a low-key, middle-class family guy, but he possesses one very special quality: He has a spine of steel. He faced myriad adversaries who tried and failed to drive him from office. The left has thrown everything at...

NONCONFIDENTIAL MEMO TO: Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO, Fox News
CC: Jeff Zucker, president, CNN Worldwide; Reince Priebus, chairman, Republican National Committee
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A story in Monday's editions on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and unions in his state quoted University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer. The story did not make clear that Cramer was summarizing the thoughts of others and not...

The Wisconsin state Assembly voted Tuesday to spend $250 million in public funds on a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks, a deal that both Republicans and Democrats lauded as good for the state and city.
No one spoke against the measure, which passed on a...

As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker shapes his presidential campaign to appeal to the GOP's deeply conservative base, perhaps nothing is more fundamental than playing up his reputation as a union slayer.
"Since I've been governor, we took on the unions...

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President Barack Obama unleashed a blistering and belittling rebuke of Republican White House hopefuls Monday, calling their attack on his landmark nuclear deal with Iran "ridiculous if it weren't so sad."
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"First off," Scott Walker proclaimed, "we took on the unions, and we won. We won!"
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In his first two weeks as a declared presidential candidate, Gov. Scott Walker has touted himself as someone who can unite the country behind conservative reforms that he passed in a blue state.
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Republicans seem to have delivered a message to George Stephanopoulos: All is forgiven.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opened up a line of attack Saturday on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, accusing the leader in recent polls in Iowa of running his neighboring state into financial trouble.
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Not satisfied with making America a global laughingstock, pacifist-in-chief Barack Crosby Stills & Nash Hussein Obama now seems determined to show the entire universe that we’re a nation of wimps.
What the heck am I talking about? I’ll tell you...

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